Re: When should a Device API be exposed? Re: Atmospheric pressure sensosr API from Doug Turner on 2012-09-10 (public-device-apis@w3.org from September 2012)

From: Doug Turner <doug.turner@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:45:57 -0700
To: "Nilsson, Claes1" <Claes1.Nilsson@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Rich Tibbett <richt@opera.com>, DAP <public-device-apis@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAHni0v-E4ne6XYPSFi5XxazFQtcxps_0A3304UrLefAMyoiDHA@mail.gmail.com>

> Do we want to provide this duplication? The reason for going for a Web Intents based solution is that the need for Web Applications to use data from external sensors will likely increase.

Exposing device apis through web intents is something that I am not
interested in.  From a browser pov, I do not think there is any
immediate market demand for exposing external sensors.  In many ways,
we are just trying to expose the functionality that native APIs have.

Doug

Received on Monday, 10 September 2012 16:46:23 UTC